Example sentences of "it was in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |
| 2 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 3 | Candy would tell her there was no point in trying to buck fate — it was in the stars that she should become entangled in this whole crazy situation . |
| 4 | The 1884 Act , which brought a wider suffrage to the countryside , was particularly significant as it was in the counties that local government retained its unreformed structure . |
| 5 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 6 | He knew it was in the interests of the City that the Tories win the next election . |
| 7 | It was in the interests of the men , of capital and the state that the institution of the family and the division of labour within it should continue . |
| 8 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
| 9 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 10 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 11 | He asked her why , and she said it was in the interests of the company . |
| 12 | Secondly , it was in the interests of factory owners and investors that they should participate , for it was of little use to produce increasing quantities of goods if the mass of the population could not afford to buy them . |
| 13 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 14 | And in this case you would not agree to statement being written , say being read out , you would n't require him to be present , and it could not be introduced under section twenty four because the court would find that it was in the interests of ju justice that it does n't . |
| 15 | It was in the interests of fair mindedness . |
| 16 | It was in the mid-1960s that you set up your first gallery . |
| 17 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 18 | And er I think in the junior school , it was in the juniors you did n't get punishment there as children in the first school , you stood in a corner , that was your punishment . |
| 19 | It was in the minutes , you should have read them . |
| 20 | Honest ! — Besides , it was in the papers was n't it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he would have to be , would n't he ? because it was in the papers only last week that one of them was sent along the line to Durham for fighting . |
| 22 | It was in the papers . |
| 23 | It was in the papers and on the television . ’ |
| 24 | Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ? |
| 25 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 26 | As it happened , it was in the years immediately following the Ashby Report that the implications of voluntaryism , and the role which professionals should play as part of a voluntary movement , became matters of major concern within the District . |
| 27 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |
| 28 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 29 | Anti-Semitism is no longer a prevalent strain in English society , as it was in the years before the war . |
| 30 | It was in the fields outside in the bogs there . |